Private corporate batches, live online cohorts and 1-on-1 mentoring in the conversion path from PHP developer to productive Laravel engineer — OOP, the container, Eloquent, auth, queues and deployment — taught by a practitioner who runs it in production.
20 years across DevOps, SRE and Security · 10,000+ engineers trained · Trained teams at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia and the World Bank
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Rajesh teaches Laravel from the language upward: why the service container can resolve a constructor argument at all, what a facade actually is, and how route model binding and Eloquent relationships are ordinary PHP once you understand interfaces, traits and reflection. Sessions cover the failures that define real projects — N+1 query explosions and the eager-loading fix, authorization scattered across controllers instead of gates and policies, and queued jobs with no retry or failure strategy — and every concept is demonstrated against a running application rather than described on slides.
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security, in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe and others. He has trained engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus — more than 10,000 people personally. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
You are booked with a named engineer, and that is who turns up. Marketplaces and larger providers rotate whoever is free, so the person who sold you the agenda is rarely the person teaching it.
The same trainer is available for the next engagement, which matters when a team builds on what it learned last time.
Your batch is assigned a named trainer before it starts, and that is who teaches it. See the full faculty.
Engagements are matched on the tool, not the calendar. For PHP with Laravel that means a trainer who has run it in production — the conversion path from PHP developer to productive Laravel engineer — OOP, the container, Eloquent, auth, queues and deployment — rather than whoever is free that week. You are told who is teaching before you commit, and that person is on the discovery call that shapes the agenda.
Where a batch is large enough to need a second trainer, the pairing is declared up front. The lead trainer stays accountable for the syllabus and the assessment either way.
Principal DevOps Engineer & Architect
Twenty years across DevOps, SRE and Security in principal and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow, JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe, IBM/Emptoris, Ness, MindTree and Accenture. He has trained more than 10,000 engineers personally, at organisations including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, Nokia, the World Bank, VMware, Oracle, Mercedes-Benz and Airbus. He teaches what he runs, not what he reads.
Teams of 8–30
Custom agenda, your timezone, onsite or online, NDA-friendly.
Request a quoteIndividual engineers
A private instructor and a curriculum built around your goal.
₹99,999Individuals who want peers
Scheduled batch, max 8 to 10 hours of live instruction.
₹34,999A private batch starts with a discovery call. We look at the stack you actually run — the CI system, the cloud, the constraints — and map the agenda onto it, so examples use your topology rather than a generic one.
Delivery is onsite at your premises, live online, or hybrid, scheduled around your release calendar rather than ours. Batches run 8 to 30 engineers.
Every attendee leaves with recordings, slides, lab repositories and a completion certificate. You receive an attendance and assessment report. Invoicing supports PO and GST.
Talk to us about a private PHP with Laravel batchPHP with Laravel is the conversion path between two skill sets that are often treated as one and are not. Laravel is a PHP framework built on the parts of the modern language that many working PHP developers have never had to use directly — interfaces and type declarations, namespaces and PSR-4 autoloading, Composer, traits, late static binding and exceptions. Reflection over those constructs is how the service container resolves dependencies, how facades resolve to concrete classes, and how Eloquent turns a database row into a typed model. A developer who has written procedural PHP can produce working Laravel code by copying documentation examples, but they cannot debug it, extend it, or make an architectural decision about it.
This course closes that gap deliberately. The first part rebuilds the PHP foundations Laravel depends on: arrays and functions, classes and visibility, inheritance and polymorphism, exception handling and custom exception classes, namespaces and PSR-4 autoloading. The second part then covers the framework properly — directory structure and the MVC arrangement, routing, controllers, Blade templating, middleware, route model binding, Eloquent relationships and query constraints, authentication and authorization with gates and policies, queues and job scheduling, events and broadcasting, testing with PHPUnit, and deployment.
It is aimed at teams that already write PHP and are adopting Laravel, or at teams whose Laravel code works but nobody can explain why. If you need the language on its own, the PHP page covers that in depth; if you want a framework-only deep dive without the language groundwork, the Laravel page is the better fit.
Laravel is now the default choice for new PHP applications in most organisations, which means a lot of teams are adopting it with developers whose PHP experience predates the modern language. That combination produces a specific, recognisable failure: code that runs, passes review because it looks like the documentation, and then cannot be debugged when the container resolves the wrong binding or an Eloquent relationship generates a thousand queries.
The framework rewards understanding and punishes cargo-culting. Route model binding, service providers, policies, queued jobs and broadcasting are all thin conveniences over language features. Once a developer understands the underlying construct, the framework becomes predictable; until then, every non-standard requirement is a guess.
What organisations hire for is the combination — someone who can write an Eloquent query that does not melt the database, structure authorization as policies rather than scattered conditionals, move slow work onto a queue with sensible retry and failure handling, write tests that actually protect the behaviour, and deploy the result. That is a shorter list than most syllabuses and a much higher bar than most tutorials.
A fast, targeted rebuild of the language foundations, aimed only at what the framework depends on. Syntax, variables and data types; control structures; functions and their usage; then arrays in depth, because every Laravel collection, config file and query result is an array underneath.
Topics: Recap of PHP syntax, variables and data types · Control structures: if statements, loops, switch cases · Functions and their usage · Understanding arrays: indexed, associative, multidimensional · Array functions: manipulation, iteration, sorting · Creating and using custom functions · Type declarations, nullable types and return types · Closures and arrow functions
The object model, taught for a purpose: every one of these constructs shows up in the framework within the first week. Classes and objects, properties and visibility, inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation, then the composition tools — interfaces, abstract classes and traits — plus static resolution and the modern PHP 8 additions.
Topics: Introduction to OOP concepts: classes and objects · Properties, methods and visibility in classes · Inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation · Interfaces and abstract classes · Traits and how Laravel uses them · Static properties, methods and late static binding · Constructor property promotion, enums and readonly properties · Dependency injection by hand, before the container does it for you
How a PHP project becomes structured. Error and exception handling, custom exception classes and try/catch discipline; then namespaces and PSR-4 autoloading, which is precisely the mechanism that lets Laravel find your controllers and models without a single include statement. Composer, versioning and the lock file complete the picture.
Topics: Handling errors and exceptions in PHP · Custom exception classes · Using try-catch blocks for error handling · Understanding namespaces and their benefits · Autoloading classes using PSR-4 standards · Organizing code using namespaces · Composer: require, autoload, semantic versioning and the lock file · Laravel's exception handler and rendering exceptions
The framework itself. Directory structure and what belongs where, the request lifecycle from public/index.php through the kernel to a response, the service container and service providers, and configuration and environment handling. Then routing, controllers and views, and the Blade templating engine — layouts, components, slots and directives.
Topics: Recap of Laravel directory structure and MVC architecture · The request lifecycle and the HTTP kernel · Service container, service providers and facades · Configuration, .env and config caching · Review of routing, controllers and views · Resource controllers and single-action controllers · Overview of the Blade templating engine · Blade layouts, components, slots and directives · Artisan and generating application scaffolding · Migrations, seeders and factories
Getting the HTTP layer right. Route model binding and implicit binding — what they resolve and what happens when they cannot; named routes and route groups for maintainable URLs; middleware for authentication, rate limiting, transformation and cross-cutting concerns. Then form requests, validation rules and API resources for shaping responses.
Topics: Route model binding and implicit model binding · Custom resolution logic and scoped bindings · Named routes and route groups · Middleware usage for route protection and manipulation · Global, route and group middleware, and middleware order · Form request classes and validation rules · Custom validation rules and error responses · API resources and response transformation · Rate limiting and throttling
The ORM, taught around the query it generates rather than the method you call. Relationships of every kind, advanced constraints, polymorphic relations and pivot tables with extra columns. Then the performance work: spotting N+1 explosions, eager and lazy eager loading, chunking large result sets, and dropping to the query builder or raw SQL when Eloquent is the wrong tool.
Topics: Querying relationships with Eloquent · hasOne, hasMany, belongsTo, belongsToMany and hasManyThrough · Advanced query constraints: whereHas, withCount, withSum and subqueries · Polymorphic relationships and pivot tables · Pivot models and extra pivot columns · Eager loading, lazy eager loading and the N+1 problem · Accessors, mutators, casts and custom casts · Query scopes, local and global · Chunking, cursors and large result sets · Transactions and when to use the query builder or raw SQL
Who you are and what you may do — two different problems, solved in two different places. Authentication scaffolding and customising the views, routes and guards; then authorization as a first-class concern with gates and policies rather than conditionals scattered through controllers and views. OAuth and social login, plus token-based authentication for APIs.
Topics: Customizing authentication views and routes · Guards, providers and multiple authentication sources · Role-based authorization with Gates and Policies · Policy discovery, authorize() and Blade @can directives · Social authentication using services like OAuth · API token authentication and stateless requests · Password reset, email verification and rate-limited login · Testing authorization rules
The production half. Moving slow work onto a queue with jobs, retries, backoff and failed-job handling; scheduling recurring work; events, listeners and broadcasting over WebSockets for real-time features. Then testing with PHPUnit — feature tests, factories, database refresh, mocking and fakes — and deployment strategies with caching, migrations and zero-downtime releases.
Topics: Implementing queues and job scheduling · Queue drivers, workers and supervision · Retries, backoff, timeouts and failed jobs · The task scheduler and cron entry · Event handling and broadcasting with WebSockets · Listeners, subscribers and queued listeners · Writing test cases with PHPUnit · Feature vs unit tests, factories and database refresh · Mocking, fakes and testing queued jobs and events · Deployment strategies and best practices · Config, route and view caching in production · Migrations, rollbacks and zero-downtime releases · Logging, monitoring and diagnosing a slow request
We rebuild the agenda around the tools you actually run.
Request a custom agendaBuild a typed domain model with interfaces and traits, wire its dependencies by hand, then let the service container do the same thing and compare.
Replace manual lookups with route model binding, protect a route group with custom middleware, and move validation into form request classes.
Profile a page issuing hundreds of queries, fix it with eager loading and constraint methods, and set a query budget that a test enforces.
Take an application with permission checks scattered through controllers and views, and consolidate them into gates and policies with tests proving each rule.
Move a slow action to a queued job, configure retries and backoff, deliberately fail it, and handle the failed job rather than losing the work.
Take the course application to a production-shaped environment: migrations, config and route caching, a supervised queue worker, scheduled tasks, feature tests in CI and a rollback plan.
Billed yearly at ₹9,996
Max 8 to 10 hours of live instruction
Full program, private instructor
8–30 engineers · custom agenda · onsite or online · PO and GST invoicing
Refunds. If we cancel or postpone a cohort, you get a full refund within 15 days. There is no money-back guarantee otherwise.
Terms. Course material remains licensed to the attendee. Read the terms.
Your data. We don't share it with third parties. Privacy policy.
Certificate of completion
Rajesh's experience and knowledge are exceptional and we learnt invaluable practical knowledge which we can apply in our production environment. Incredibly friendly and gave us a fantastic insight both in-depth and at a high level of the Rundeck product.
Great learning experience from a very knowledgeable instructor with well-prepared course notes. The lab exercises on AWS instance work well to learn the hands-on side of the course.
Rajesh is a very good trainer I have experienced in DevSecOps training. The number of contents in different topics he has posted on the DevOpsSchool public website are amazing and user friendly for beginners and experienced professionals.
The trainer (Rajesh) provided very good sessions on SRE profession. Not only hands-on learning on the tools but also SRE mindset.
Very good training session. Well explained from the basics to the complex concepts. Also tried to cover practicals and demos within the 3 hour sessions. The learning content and videos are of a great deal of help.
Basics explanation was exemplary from Rajesh where he dealt with complicated topics to be simple. Great learning stuff personally for me.
| What matters | YouTube + blogs | Generic online course | Freelance marketplace | DevOpsSchool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named practitioner | No | Rarely | Varies per booking | Yes — same trainer each time |
| Production experience | Unknown | Unknown | Unverified | 20 years, named employers |
| Custom agenda | No | No | Sometimes | Built from your stack |
| Onsite delivery | No | No | Sometimes | Yes |
| Lab environment | None | Sandbox that expires | Varies | Your own cloud — skill goes with you |
| Assessment | None | Quiz | Rarely | Assignments + capstone per module |
| Per-attendee certificates | No | Sometimes | Rarely | Yes |
| Corporate invoicing | No | Limited | Varies | PO and GST |
| Post-training support | None | Forum, time-limited | None | Lifetime forum access |
Tell us the team, the stack and the timeline. You'll get a straight answer, not a sales sequence.
Talk to an advisorPrefer to call or email?
More ways to reach us on the contact page.